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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1932-08-19

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1932-08-19, page 01

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VOL. XV—N... 8f)
COUJMBU.S, OHIO. AUGUST 19, Kj.-ja
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By the Way
By DavW Schwartz
Conning Thunder
A Jewish i>hy.siciaii has di-scovcrcd a U.1C for thunder. This Dr. I'ragcr makes records of tliuiider and then lets deaf patients listen in. His theory is that the vibration tends to arouse the sluggish hlootl circtiJation in the licaring zones and restores them.
I cannot sik'ak as to the theory or its efficacy, except as a laymaii to welcome any practical use that old man tluindcr can be put to. A thing whicli makes so much noise ought 16 lie made to do some work.
I trust that Dr. Pragcr will follow thJs up by Anding some use for earthquakes, tornadoes, hay fever and Gertrude Stein's poetry.
Cashing Tornadoes
Of course, all of these things do lend a certain color to life, as it is. I know how important color is, but still it's not ciiougli. And speaking of tornadoes, it
Important Meeting to Be Held
At Hebrew School on
Aug. 24th
Letter Inviting Attendance of Ucp-
rctjcntntives «f All Organizations Has Been Sent Out
The followiiifj; letter from ihe Board of Directors of the Columbus Hebrew School has been sent out to representa¬ tives of Jill local Jewish organizations. It speaks for itself and in such tones a;, to elicit the attention of every Jew in whose heart tlicrc beats a love for things Jewish, FcHow Jew :~
Arc ynu Interested in holding aloft the banner oif Jewish education in this com¬ munity?
Do you desire to help in the rearing of a generation of Jews who know what our ancestral faith stands ior and arc familiar with its culture and traditions?
Do you want to perpetuate those sub¬ lime principles upon ¦ which the 1*14016 structure of Judaism rests? /^
Do you want to keep the Jewish corn-
even has certain njore^practical uses, as niunity of* Columbus in the forefront of
the story about that North Dakota storC' keeper relates.
If you haven't hcafd the story—well, it concerns an insurance agent who tried to sell this North Dakota merchant a line of insurance.
"You had better get some fire insur¬ ance," he counselled the storckeei>er.
"How much do you think I should get?" asked the storekeeper.
"Well, I should say about $3,000."
"All right,-put me down for $5,000."
"And then," continued the insurance agent, "you had better get some btii-glary insurance.",
"How,much burglary insurance do you think I should get?"
"Oh, about $2,000."
"All right, put me down for $2,000 burglary insurance."
"And then you shpuld get some tor¬ nado insurance. You know ,; in North Dakota wc have a lot of tornadoes," ""
"Tornadoes?" quizzed the storekeeper. "Tornadoes! How do you make a tor¬ nado?" ' ' Plays and Skirts
If you want to write a play, your op¬ portunity is now. There is a-producer out looking for a, play. He'll produce it —all you have to do is to conform to one condition.
, The gentleman I am referring to is S. Klein, H you've ever visited New York you probably have heard of him— I mean the 34tii St. Klein, There are grosse Kleins and kicinc Kleinsi in New York, but there is only one 14th Street Klein, This Klein has the biggest women's dress store 'p'ro'bably in tfie world. He is the champion cut rate dress sellen
It's an institution in New York—like the Automat, and Klein lias taken a cue from the fact that the Automat has been getting a lot of .free; adverti-semcnts in the musical play, "F^ce the Music."
If that play can have a scene depicting the Automat, why can't some play ad¬ vertise Klein's dress establishment?
So he is out looking for the dramatist, who'll do the stunl. If you will permit a pun in this 'hot weather—the opiror-. tunity is too good to de-cline.
Philosophical Fools Dr. M, Leon, author of The Comedy of Human Philosophy, who when not a historian of philosophy, is a.medical prac¬ titioner in Missouri, sentis ine a copy of his opjUs, which I find very interesting reading.
There is one quotation from Ludwig Borne, -the famed contemporary of Heinie, which I think is Avorth requoting, namely: "Everybody has' a right to be a blockhead;.nothing can be said against it. But even a right should be used with moderation. Some people abuse it,"
It seems to me tliat Borne was being very conservative. To my mind, it ap¬ pears that we all abuse that,right. Pro¬ fessor Pitkin has just now finished a volume of some five hundred pages on The History of Stupidity, and to mc he abuses it—for it seems to me that such a history is a piece of stupidity'—of blockheadedness itself.
Indeed, after reading Dr. Leon's vol¬ ume, I am,convinced that there is four or iive times more stupidity, indulged in by philosophers than by the average so- called stupid person. What theories have these philosophers .not broached—how repugnant to all the simple rules of com¬ mon sense 1 Pythagorus with his philos¬ ophy of numbers, the Gnostics with their itJealization of Cain and Judas and their veneration of the serpent.
There is no fool like a pliilosophical fool.
The Blush of Yesteryear
George Gershwin still blushes occa¬ sionally, being one of- the few people, so far as I know, who has managed to retain that good old custom, which to¬ day is as rare as the short skirt,
'Mr. Ernst, that stout exponent of free and uncensored literature, has an article in the current Nation, declaring tliat sex has won in America, that court decisions of late have all been on the .side of the full and untrammelled publication of robust sex literature, and I suppose the absence of the blush is part of that sex victory, which the natioii has gained. Only the innocent, to whom everythnig about sex was wrapped in a baze, could blush. The present age Is too knowing, and ergo too blase to blush. The biir- lescpie houses in New York, I am told, are in a great riuandry over this callous¬ ness. They have shed clothes to that irreducible minimum never before at tempted on the American stage, Imt the houses are empty.
Censors of the Future
In brief, they have discovered, what theorists have long told them, that people are never excited about a thing itself so (Continued on page 2)
those communities who are proud of their heritage and are imbued with the deter¬ mination to remain loyal to Israel's Torah and Israel's God?
Then be sure to attend the important meeting which has been scheduled by the Board of Directors of the Columhus Hebrew School for Wednesday evening, August 24th, at 558 East Kich Street.
We are facing^ a crisis in this com¬ munity eclipsing in imjiortance anything tbat has ever appeared on the horizon of Jewisli life in Columbus.
'Let lis awaken to qur responsibilities And realize that our interest lies in the advancement- of those things for which our fathers suffered and died throughout tlie ages.
/"We dare not neglect the education of fouryoutl^; to inculcate in our growing boys and girls a love of things Jewish isa diity utishirkable.
The ,doors of .the Columbus Hebrew |\Schooi'must remain open-; towards this 'end you &nd our .Board of Directors must work hand in hand.'
, The meeting which, has been called for Wednesday eyening. August 24th, will be addressed by a prominent out of town speaker. ¦ " \ . , "
[ 'Follovving thi^ address, an open forum discussfdn will be held on ways and ¦means .wlicjrQby, the, future of the Talmud Torah will be insured.
Be sure that you set aside this date for this itiiportant conference. We shall lools'for you at. this; meeting. Do not fail 'ps in this crucial hour 1
Ydurs for a living Judaism,
\ The iBoard of Directors,
Columbus Hebrew School.
Columbus Jewry Being Put to the Test
A most urgent call has been sent out to reiiresentatives of all local organizations and leaders of the entire Jewish community of Columbus for a special meeting to be held at the Columbus Hebrew School, 558 East Rich Street, on August 24th, 1932, at 7:30 p. m.
The purpose of this gathering will be to decide upon ways and means whereby to prevent the closing of the doors of that educational institution which has contributed so much to the advancement of our ancestral faith and its culture in central Ohio.
This is, indeed, a most critical hour in the history of Columbus Jewry.
Every Jew or Jewess, in whose veins Jewish blood is pulsing should feel it .their duty to attend this all important meeting and to lend their support as well as counsel and co-operation towards the solution of a I problem which has been perplexing the directors of the Hebrew School for over a year.
Let it be clearly understood that the raising of money is not the immediate purpose of this gathering. Its chief aim,is to get our people together and to work out plans through which the future of the Colum¬ bus Hebrew School xvill be insured. Every Chronicle reader who is corivinced of the imperative necessity of Jewish education should feel it incumbent upon himself to attend and to contribute his suggestions.
If Judaism in this community is to continue as a Uving and throb¬ bing force, we dare not allow the doors of the Talmud Torah to be closed. This is a testing time for all of us; we are now being weighed in the balance. We dare not be found wanting. Let us realize the grave responsibility that rests upon our shoulders and get together to discharge our obligations in such a manner as to convince the world of »ur genuine zeal and faithfulness to the teachings of our ancestors.
Whether or not you receive a letter pertaining to the forthcoming meeting on August 24th at the Hebrew School, please consider it your duty to attend. A prominent out of town speaker with a powerful mes¬ sage will be one bf the features at this meetiiig. Let us rally to the standard of the Hebrew School and thereby fulfill our obligations both as Jews and as good Americans. -
(Signed) A Chamj^ion of Jewish Education.
Noted Men to Participate in
Forthcoming )Zionist
Convention
As I See It
By A. M. N,
Announce Hillel Officers and
Advisory Board Members
For Coming Year
The officers and advisory board mem¬ bers of the B'nai B'rith Hillcl Founda¬ tion of Ohio State University for the fall and ^vinter.quarters arc as follows: Mrs. Lawrence Loewenstein, 'Chairman; Dr. Samuel D. Edelman, Vice Qiair¬ man; Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, Secretary; Educatiqn--Dr. B. W. Aibramson; Con¬ gregation—iDr. E. J. Gordon and Mr. Arthur Gluck; Student Loan Fund-—Mr. Edwin J. Schanifarber and Dr. Theo. Beckman; House Committee—-Mrs. I. A. Rosenthal, Mrs, Morris Polster; Open Forum—-Martin Ornstein, Roy J. Stone; Publicity—Aaron M. Neustadt; Alumni ^Dr. Samuel D. Edelman,, Joseph C. Goodman ; Avukah—Allan Tarshish; Dramatics—Samuel Luchs, Dr. Morris Goldberg; Social Committee—Mrs. Dave Levinson; Student Welfare—'Dorothy Finkelstein ; Hadassah-—Dorothy Finkel¬ stein; Employment—Mr. Edward E. Schiff and l-eon J. Goodman; B'nai B'rith, Mr. Robert L. Mellman and Harry Schwartz.
The board is composed of the follow¬ ing: Dr, B. W.'Ahramson, Dr, Theodore N. Beckman, 'Dr. Samuel D. Edelman, Miss Dorothy Finkelstein; Dr. E. J. Gordon, Aaron M. Neustadt, Martin Ornstein, Mrs. I. A. ^Rosenthal, Mr. Ed¬ ward E. Schiff, Mr. -Roy J. Stone, Mr. Arthur Gluck, Dr. Morris Goldberg, Mr. Leon J. Goodman, Mr. Joseph C. Good¬ man. Mrs. Dave Levinson, Mr. Samuel D. Luchs, Mrs, Morris Polster, Miss Rose Sugarman, Mr. Edwin J. Schan¬ farber, Mr. Harry Schwartz, Mr. Allan Tarshish, and Rabbi Nathan Zelizer and Kabbi Samuel M. Gup.
The Treatment of Poland's Jewish Minorities
By MAX X KOHLER
Cantor Ansel Freedman To
Officiate Here During
High Holidays
Mr. J. W. Zilberman, president of the .^.gmlath Achim Congregation, an¬ nounced last Wednesday that Cantor Ansel Freethnan has been engaged to officiate in that synagogue at the forth- comhig holidays. Later on in the sea¬ son the cantor will present an extraordi¬ nary concert in which noted artists from the East will participate. Watch future issiues of. the Ciikonicle for further details.
Ezras Noshim Meeting
The regular nieeting of the Ezras Noshim Society will be held on Monday, August 2tiiid, in the vestry rooms of the Agudath Achim Congregation. All mem¬ bers are urged to be present! Important matters will be brought up for considera¬ tion.
[Editor's Note: This paper was read by Max J. Kohler at a Round Table of- the "Jmtilute of Polilics," dl M^illidnts- town, on August 'ii, J933:.]
About a year and'a half ago, when Polish conditions were discussed in New Y'ork City at a meeting of the Conference on Immigration Policy, a well-informed Polish-American editor, a Catholic, stated publicly that the condition of Poland's Jews is not merely lamentable but in his opinion absolutely hopeless. Fortunately, since then a ray or two of hope for the ultimate solution of the problem has emerged, and that, notwithstanding the greatly increased world economic depres¬ sion, the resulting practical cessation of pecuniary aid from American Jews, and the substantial stoppage of emigration to America. Unfortunately, most of the distress of Poland's Jewish minorities, amounting to about a quarter of all the Jeyifs in the world, is due to direct vio¬ lation of specific provisions of the Polish Minorities treaty, which had, on paper, safeguarded practically.all the rights in¬ volved and had anticipated such prospec¬ tive infractions. ,
Poland has about 3 million Jews, about 10% of her entire population, but while 80% of Poland's population reside in the rural district, only about 20% of her Jews do, the rest being city dwellers. In fact, the congestion of Jews in large Polish cities is much greater than these figures indicate, Jews constituting about 34% of Warsaw's entire population, namely about 32i>,000 Jews, Lodz contain¬ ing about 37% Jews, Lemberg 35%, Vilna 43% and Cracow '2410%.
A sharp distinction should be drawn, between the so-called Jewish "assimila¬ tionists," who are Polish speaking in language and everything except religion, and " the overwhelming majority of Poland's Jews, who are Yiddish speak¬ ing, and except in the newly acquired Vilna and Upi>er Silesian sections, were forced by Russia during the four decades preceding the War, westward into Poland, in connection with an attempted "Russification" of Poland, and Vvho arc quite unassimilated and accustomed to considerable self-autonomy over many matters other than their religion. In IWl only about 735,000 Polish Jews reg¬ istered as professing Jews of other than Jewish nationality, chiefly Polish, that we can see that less than 20% of Poland's Jews are really non-Yiddish speaking. For practical purposes, we may disregard these hereafter, except to say 'that one, Ashkenazi, is perhaps PoUand's most distinguished historian tO' day and has represented Poland before the League of Nations, though in Poland too, these non-Yiddish speaking Jews are commonly classed with the large Jewish majority.
Unfortunately for the Polish Jews, their troubles had begun some years,be¬ fore the War, for a sweeping anti-Jew¬ ish boycottj organized by the well-known Polish politician Dniowski, and arising from an election controversy, cut off al- mo.st all Jewish commercial intercourse with Christian Poles and had greatly im¬ poverished Poland's Jews before the fatal year liH4, and this has raged substan¬ tially ever since. In addition, during the War the Jews of Poland in general re¬ membered that Craristic Russia had per¬ secuted them most bitterly and deprived them of almost all the rights of mi^n, and .treated them as a kind of serf, and they
tried' to remain' neutral during the War, as ¦ between' Germans vs Poles, and Poles vs, Russians and Ukrainians, witli the result that air these combatants treiated them as enemies, In war,' the saying is of course, particularly true that "wlio- ever is not with me, is' against me." During the Peace Conference this hos¬ tility led to occasional massacres of Jews even,, the scope of which the Jews nat¬ urally often erroneously exaggerated, calling them "pogroms," and during the Conference President .Wilson appointed the Morgcnthau investigation. Commis¬ sion, which, succeeded in preventing bloodshed. Able account,of its investi¬ gations and Polish Jewish conditions of the time are to be found ih Ambassador Morgenthau's "All in a Lifetime," a book entitled "Poland and Her Minority Races," by Arthur Gooijhart of New Vork, (Secretary of the Commission and now professor of Jurisprudence at Ox¬ ford, and in Luzzati's. "God in Freedom." The persecutions pf the Jews in Poland and Rumania were brought before the Peace Conference and primarily induced the drafting of the minorities.treaties iji general, which Owe their adoption chiefly to Louis Marshall of' New York, aided by Judge Mack and Cyrus Adler and Lucien Wolf of London on the one hand, and President Wilson, Colonel House, David Hunter Miller, Manley 0. Hud¬ son and Lord. Tiobert Cecil on the other. The privately printed Miller "Diary" con¬ tains represcntiitions pro and con , from the niinoritie.'! and their, governments as to the need for and proper scope of the minority treaties. Article II of the Polish Treaty <leals specifically with tho right of Jews to observe Saturday as their Sabbath.
Unforttmatcly for Poland in particular, economic considerations were not suf¬ ficiently considered in fixing her boun¬ daries, and she has had an extremely difficult economic struggle ever since, es¬ iiecially as she lost ;her former Russian and German markets, on which her Jew; also largely depended. In addition to this fact and the anti-Jewish animositiei. referred to, Polafl<l had not been accus¬ tomed to self-government for over a cen¬ tury, and is not adept at statesmanship, as witnes.ses the fact which Ambassador Morgenthau has noted, .that her consti¬ tutional convention was in session about a year before the preliminary preamble to the Constitution was completed. ¦ lAs to. jMilitical and social infractions of the Polish Minorities Treaty, the very first article prohibiting civil, political, religious and linguistic discriminations was violated, as regards the Jews, until last year, the anti-Jewish Czaristic Laws being continued in force till theii, despite their insertion in her non-self-execu|ing Constitution, Her legislature continued veliemehtlv to debate the bill to repeal these until last year, and the able Ger¬ man work on Prof.. Schmitt's bibliog¬ raphy e<lited by Amende, entitled "Die Nationalitaten in der Staaten Europas," published last year, (jescribcs_ these griev¬ ous legal disabilities as still in force. Article 7, prohibiting discrimination on the score of race, language or creed in civil and political rights has also, and still is. grossly violated.^ By "gerriman- dering" the representation of about 40 to which the Jews were entitled on a basis of population and membershit> at large in the lower house of her legisla¬ ture was greatly reduced, and further curtailed from time to time, as also their (Continued on Page 2)
Jewish National Fund Council of
Cleveland to Tender Luncheon to
Delegates From Ohio Cities
The Jewish National Fund Council of Cleveland is taking cognizance^ of the Zionist Regional Convention Saturday night and Sunday, September 17 and IH, by tendering a Lunclicoii to delegates and guests. Sunday noon, September 18, at tlie Allerlon Hotel in Cleveland.
The National Fmid Council in Cleve¬ land which has been in existence for the past fifteen years and which has trans¬ mitted to Palestine during,, this |)eriod almost $150,000.00 for the redeeming of Palestine soil from non-Jewish hands, will take this occasion in presenting eleven Gol<len liook Certificates which were secured during the Zion Week cele¬ brated in Cleveland last spring.
The Zionist State Conveiition which will open Saturday night with a Sym¬ posium on Zionism will conclude Sunday night with a banquet where 'Morris Roth¬ enberg. president of the Zionist Organi¬ zation of America, will be the guest of honor.
Amongst the other noted speakers to participate in the Syniiwsiuni, State Con¬ ference, and Banquet, besides Mr. Roth¬ enberg, :ire Rabbi James, G. Heller, of Cincinnati, one of the outstanding rabbis in the American Reform pulpit; Profes¬ sor S. Maximon, Registrar of the He¬ brew Union College, Hebrew cssayisf and educator; A. .H. Friedland, poet, au¬ thor, and -superintendent of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools; Rabbi Barnett R. Brickncr of the Euclid Avenue Temple, Cleveland; and other noted leaders and speakers.
Miss Dorothy Finkelstein, president of the Central Tri-State Region of Junior Hadassah in a letter addressed to Mr. Isaac Carmel promises to attend the Con¬ vention. She urges all the Junior Ha¬ dassah Units in the State of Ohio to send delegates so that the Junior Hadas¬ sah may have a large and influential rep¬ resentation at the Zionist Convention, Saturday, night and Sunday, September 17 and 18, in Cleveland. |
The purposes of the Zionist Regional ¦ Convention aiinounced in the call which was sent to twenty-seven Jewish com¬ munities i.n the State of Ohio sets forth the following program:
1. To draw twenty-seven Jewish com¬ munities of Ohio into active Zionist life; to give these Jews content; to acquaint them with the problems facing our peo¬ ple ; to kindle in their hearts the cherished hopes and aspirations of oiir ancestors. :
2. To effect the use" of the Regional Ofiice and headquarters as a Palestine Information Bureau for. the ,purpo.se of giving information to prospective settlers and tourists.
3. To organize Zionist work in a reg¬ ular and systematic manner; to initiate and supervise all Zionist efforts in the State of Ohio.
4. To organize and regulate the cam¬ paigns for Palestine funds: the Keren Hayesod and Keren Kayemeth.
.5. To organize large Zionist Districts; societies, and clubs.
C. Tb foster arid promote a Zionist youth movement by organizing Young Judea Clubs, and encouraging the or¬ ganizing of young people's Zionist clubs.
Adolph Tlitler. National Socialist leader, whose party recently won 230 scats in the new IReichstag, constituting the largest party, but falling short, of a majority, today formally declined to be¬ come vice-ChanceUor ot Germany, a po¬ sition which would have been created for him and which would have included tlic Premiership of Prussia. Hitler de¬ clined the post at a conference with Chancellor von Papen today. The Nazi chieftain, it is understood, is insistent that lie be made Chancellor with absolute control of the cabinet. Hitler also re¬ fused an offer of the Ministry of In¬ terior for one of his lieutenants, , It seems that the arch anti-Semite wants full [Kiwcr as dictator of the Fatherland >ar nothing at all; his ambition is coupled wifli a desire to destroy the Jews of Germany. I hope that the good sense of the great masses of Germany will not permit siich an eventuality, for this would mark the beginning qf that coun- try'.s downfall and its reversion to a state of barbarism totally out of place in the twentieth century.
I have just heard that Cliief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz of the British Empire has arrived in the United States incog¬ nito and has been visiting here with his mother and several other relatives. The distinguished divine has persistently re¬ fused to be interviewed and such requests have been parried with a statement that' he is not here in any official capacity. Neither through the Post OlTice nor by lelcphoiie has it been possible to reach the Chief vRabbi directly.
It is interesting to note that Dr. Hertz, wlio was horn in Czecho-Slovakia, was brought to New York City by his par¬ ents as a child. He received his elemen¬ tary education in the public schools of the grpat metropolis and continued it at the Cohege of the City of New York and Columbia University. His theological . training took place at the Jewish Theo¬ logical Seminary of America. .
Dr.. Hertz's first Rabbinical post was in "Syracuse, N. Y., where he remained until 1898 when he was appointed spir¬ itual leader of a large congregation in Johannesburg; In 1011 Rabbi Hertz was expelled from the Transvaal by President Kruger for .his pro-British sympathies; thereupon he returned to the United States where he became Rabbi of Con¬ gregation Orach Chayim of New York. In 1913 he was.named Chief_ Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of.the British Empire. Dr. Hertz's brother in New York, Emanuel Hertz, is a wfell known bibliophile.
Elected Spiritual Leader of Agudath Achim Cong.
A new antirSemitic publication,. pat¬ terned after the defunct Dearborn Inde¬ pendent of Henry Ford and utilizing the libels of the spurious Elders of Zion, appeared on the newstands of Toronto, Canada, last Monday. A copy of the publication, which has reached the office of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle, reveals that Englaiid is the first target for attack because, of its supposed friendliness to¬ wards Zionist aspirations. The paper charges that the Elders of Zion first be¬ came a power under the late Theodore 'Herzl, Zionist leader, and as such are reported in the minutes of tlie first Zion¬ ist Congress, held in Basle in 1897. This power has now been transferred to the Jewish Agency, the paper charges.
The publication also issues a warning to the Imperial Conference in Ottawa to beware of the Jews and the plans of the Elders of Zion who are watching the proceedings and will form their, future destructive activities accordingly.
Notwithstanding all these charges the paper claims that it Is not anti-Semitic. It asserts that Britain is the Home of the (Continued on page 2)
Women Pioneers' Picnic to Be Held This Sunday
Kabbi Hirschsprung
Rabbi Mordechai Hirschsprung of Canton, Ohio, was elected as spiritual leader of the Agudath Achim (Tbngrega- tion at a meeting held Wednesday eve¬ ning. He succee<ls Rabbi Isaac Werne who occupied this pulpit for past ten years.
Rabbi Hirschsprung is a brilliant rep¬ resentative of the younger generation of American Orthodox rahbis. He has re¬ ceived a very thorough academic and theological training in famous institutions of learning. He has been actively iden¬ tified with every movement dedicated to the public weal. In every community where he has served as rabbi he acquired hosts of friends through the magnetism of his personality.
Rabbi Hirschsprung is contributing editor of die Stark County Jewish News and 13 also a frequent contributor to various Hebrew and Yiddish publications.
The last picnic of the season will be given hy the Women Pioneers of Pales¬ tine on Sunday (tomorrow), at OIcii- tangy Park. Mrs. Solomon Grodner and her committee have sii)ared no effort in making this affair one of the best of the season. There will be entertainment for all, including games, contests, swimming and dancing. This affair is open to the entire Jewi.sh community, and a large turnout is expected.
Buy your ticket now from Mrs. Grod¬ ner, or any member of the organization, which will be the general admission to the park.
Bring your family and friends out to Oleiitangy Park Sunday for a day of big events.
Will Broadcast
Miss Elsa Leon, of New York City, well known contralto singer, will broad¬ cast over station WAIU this Sunday night at 8:30 p. m., together with her popular singers. Miss Leon was one of the first to introduce "Eili, Eili" over the radio. She is the composer of the Jew¬ ish song, "Israel," and many other com¬ positions. MisB Lemi is the sister of Miss Sabena Hirscliberg of Newark, Ohio.
NOTES FROM THE JEWISH INFANTS' HOME OF OHIO
The officers and board inembers of the Jewish Infants* Home of Ohio take this opportunity of thanking Mrs. Monroe Lewensohn, 13f{ N. Ardmore Road, Bex¬ ley, for her kind donation of a baby car¬ riage.
Mrs. E. J. Gordon^ 602 East Town Street, entertained the children at her home last week with a party.

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Central Ohio's Only
¦ Jezvish Nezvspaper
Reaeliing Every Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to American
and
Jczvi.vh Ideals
VOL. XV—N... 8f)
COUJMBU.S, OHIO. AUGUST 19, Kj.-ja
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
By the Way
By DavW Schwartz
Conning Thunder
A Jewish i>hy.siciaii has di-scovcrcd a U.1C for thunder. This Dr. I'ragcr makes records of tliuiider and then lets deaf patients listen in. His theory is that the vibration tends to arouse the sluggish hlootl circtiJation in the licaring zones and restores them.
I cannot sik'ak as to the theory or its efficacy, except as a laymaii to welcome any practical use that old man tluindcr can be put to. A thing whicli makes so much noise ought 16 lie made to do some work.
I trust that Dr. Pragcr will follow thJs up by Anding some use for earthquakes, tornadoes, hay fever and Gertrude Stein's poetry.
Cashing Tornadoes
Of course, all of these things do lend a certain color to life, as it is. I know how important color is, but still it's not ciiougli. And speaking of tornadoes, it
Important Meeting to Be Held
At Hebrew School on
Aug. 24th
Letter Inviting Attendance of Ucp-
rctjcntntives «f All Organizations Has Been Sent Out
The followiiifj; letter from ihe Board of Directors of the Columbus Hebrew School has been sent out to representa¬ tives of Jill local Jewish organizations. It speaks for itself and in such tones a;, to elicit the attention of every Jew in whose heart tlicrc beats a love for things Jewish, FcHow Jew :~
Arc ynu Interested in holding aloft the banner oif Jewish education in this com¬ munity?
Do you desire to help in the rearing of a generation of Jews who know what our ancestral faith stands ior and arc familiar with its culture and traditions?
Do you want to perpetuate those sub¬ lime principles upon ¦ which the 1*14016 structure of Judaism rests? /^
Do you want to keep the Jewish corn-
even has certain njore^practical uses, as niunity of* Columbus in the forefront of
the story about that North Dakota storC' keeper relates.
If you haven't hcafd the story—well, it concerns an insurance agent who tried to sell this North Dakota merchant a line of insurance.
"You had better get some fire insur¬ ance," he counselled the storckeei>er.
"How much do you think I should get?" asked the storekeeper.
"Well, I should say about $3,000."
"All right,-put me down for $5,000."
"And then," continued the insurance agent, "you had better get some btii-glary insurance.",
"How,much burglary insurance do you think I should get?"
"Oh, about $2,000."
"All right, put me down for $2,000 burglary insurance."
"And then you shpuld get some tor¬ nado insurance. You know ,; in North Dakota wc have a lot of tornadoes," ""
"Tornadoes?" quizzed the storekeeper. "Tornadoes! How do you make a tor¬ nado?" ' ' Plays and Skirts
If you want to write a play, your op¬ portunity is now. There is a-producer out looking for a, play. He'll produce it —all you have to do is to conform to one condition.
, The gentleman I am referring to is S. Klein, H you've ever visited New York you probably have heard of him— I mean the 34tii St. Klein, There are grosse Kleins and kicinc Kleinsi in New York, but there is only one 14th Street Klein, This Klein has the biggest women's dress store 'p'ro'bably in tfie world. He is the champion cut rate dress sellen
It's an institution in New York—like the Automat, and Klein lias taken a cue from the fact that the Automat has been getting a lot of .free; adverti-semcnts in the musical play, "F^ce the Music."
If that play can have a scene depicting the Automat, why can't some play ad¬ vertise Klein's dress establishment?
So he is out looking for the dramatist, who'll do the stunl. If you will permit a pun in this 'hot weather—the opiror-. tunity is too good to de-cline.
Philosophical Fools Dr. M, Leon, author of The Comedy of Human Philosophy, who when not a historian of philosophy, is a.medical prac¬ titioner in Missouri, sentis ine a copy of his opjUs, which I find very interesting reading.
There is one quotation from Ludwig Borne, -the famed contemporary of Heinie, which I think is Avorth requoting, namely: "Everybody has' a right to be a blockhead;.nothing can be said against it. But even a right should be used with moderation. Some people abuse it,"
It seems to me tliat Borne was being very conservative. To my mind, it ap¬ pears that we all abuse that,right. Pro¬ fessor Pitkin has just now finished a volume of some five hundred pages on The History of Stupidity, and to mc he abuses it—for it seems to me that such a history is a piece of stupidity'—of blockheadedness itself.
Indeed, after reading Dr. Leon's vol¬ ume, I am,convinced that there is four or iive times more stupidity, indulged in by philosophers than by the average so- called stupid person. What theories have these philosophers .not broached—how repugnant to all the simple rules of com¬ mon sense 1 Pythagorus with his philos¬ ophy of numbers, the Gnostics with their itJealization of Cain and Judas and their veneration of the serpent.
There is no fool like a pliilosophical fool.
The Blush of Yesteryear
George Gershwin still blushes occa¬ sionally, being one of- the few people, so far as I know, who has managed to retain that good old custom, which to¬ day is as rare as the short skirt,
'Mr. Ernst, that stout exponent of free and uncensored literature, has an article in the current Nation, declaring tliat sex has won in America, that court decisions of late have all been on the .side of the full and untrammelled publication of robust sex literature, and I suppose the absence of the blush is part of that sex victory, which the natioii has gained. Only the innocent, to whom everythnig about sex was wrapped in a baze, could blush. The present age Is too knowing, and ergo too blase to blush. The biir- lescpie houses in New York, I am told, are in a great riuandry over this callous¬ ness. They have shed clothes to that irreducible minimum never before at tempted on the American stage, Imt the houses are empty.
Censors of the Future
In brief, they have discovered, what theorists have long told them, that people are never excited about a thing itself so (Continued on page 2)
those communities who are proud of their heritage and are imbued with the deter¬ mination to remain loyal to Israel's Torah and Israel's God?
Then be sure to attend the important meeting which has been scheduled by the Board of Directors of the Columhus Hebrew School for Wednesday evening, August 24th, at 558 East Kich Street.
We are facing^ a crisis in this com¬ munity eclipsing in imjiortance anything tbat has ever appeared on the horizon of Jewisli life in Columbus.
'Let lis awaken to qur responsibilities And realize that our interest lies in the advancement- of those things for which our fathers suffered and died throughout tlie ages.
/"We dare not neglect the education of fouryoutl^; to inculcate in our growing boys and girls a love of things Jewish isa diity utishirkable.
The ,doors of .the Columbus Hebrew |\Schooi'must remain open-; towards this 'end you &nd our .Board of Directors must work hand in hand.'
, The meeting which, has been called for Wednesday eyening. August 24th, will be addressed by a prominent out of town speaker. ¦ " \ . , "
[ 'Follovving thi^ address, an open forum discussfdn will be held on ways and ¦means .wlicjrQby, the, future of the Talmud Torah will be insured.
Be sure that you set aside this date for this itiiportant conference. We shall lools'for you at. this; meeting. Do not fail 'ps in this crucial hour 1
Ydurs for a living Judaism,
\ The iBoard of Directors,
Columbus Hebrew School.
Columbus Jewry Being Put to the Test
A most urgent call has been sent out to reiiresentatives of all local organizations and leaders of the entire Jewish community of Columbus for a special meeting to be held at the Columbus Hebrew School, 558 East Rich Street, on August 24th, 1932, at 7:30 p. m.
The purpose of this gathering will be to decide upon ways and means whereby to prevent the closing of the doors of that educational institution which has contributed so much to the advancement of our ancestral faith and its culture in central Ohio.
This is, indeed, a most critical hour in the history of Columbus Jewry.
Every Jew or Jewess, in whose veins Jewish blood is pulsing should feel it .their duty to attend this all important meeting and to lend their support as well as counsel and co-operation towards the solution of a I problem which has been perplexing the directors of the Hebrew School for over a year.
Let it be clearly understood that the raising of money is not the immediate purpose of this gathering. Its chief aim,is to get our people together and to work out plans through which the future of the Colum¬ bus Hebrew School xvill be insured. Every Chronicle reader who is corivinced of the imperative necessity of Jewish education should feel it incumbent upon himself to attend and to contribute his suggestions.
If Judaism in this community is to continue as a Uving and throb¬ bing force, we dare not allow the doors of the Talmud Torah to be closed. This is a testing time for all of us; we are now being weighed in the balance. We dare not be found wanting. Let us realize the grave responsibility that rests upon our shoulders and get together to discharge our obligations in such a manner as to convince the world of »ur genuine zeal and faithfulness to the teachings of our ancestors.
Whether or not you receive a letter pertaining to the forthcoming meeting on August 24th at the Hebrew School, please consider it your duty to attend. A prominent out of town speaker with a powerful mes¬ sage will be one bf the features at this meetiiig. Let us rally to the standard of the Hebrew School and thereby fulfill our obligations both as Jews and as good Americans. -
(Signed) A Chamj^ion of Jewish Education.
Noted Men to Participate in
Forthcoming )Zionist
Convention
As I See It
By A. M. N,
Announce Hillel Officers and
Advisory Board Members
For Coming Year
The officers and advisory board mem¬ bers of the B'nai B'rith Hillcl Founda¬ tion of Ohio State University for the fall and ^vinter.quarters arc as follows: Mrs. Lawrence Loewenstein, 'Chairman; Dr. Samuel D. Edelman, Vice Qiair¬ man; Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, Secretary; Educatiqn--Dr. B. W. Aibramson; Con¬ gregation—iDr. E. J. Gordon and Mr. Arthur Gluck; Student Loan Fund-—Mr. Edwin J. Schanifarber and Dr. Theo. Beckman; House Committee—-Mrs. I. A. Rosenthal, Mrs, Morris Polster; Open Forum—-Martin Ornstein, Roy J. Stone; Publicity—Aaron M. Neustadt; Alumni ^Dr. Samuel D. Edelman,, Joseph C. Goodman ; Avukah—Allan Tarshish; Dramatics—Samuel Luchs, Dr. Morris Goldberg; Social Committee—Mrs. Dave Levinson; Student Welfare—'Dorothy Finkelstein ; Hadassah-—Dorothy Finkel¬ stein; Employment—Mr. Edward E. Schiff and l-eon J. Goodman; B'nai B'rith, Mr. Robert L. Mellman and Harry Schwartz.
The board is composed of the follow¬ ing: Dr, B. W.'Ahramson, Dr, Theodore N. Beckman, 'Dr. Samuel D. Edelman, Miss Dorothy Finkelstein; Dr. E. J. Gordon, Aaron M. Neustadt, Martin Ornstein, Mrs. I. A. ^Rosenthal, Mr. Ed¬ ward E. Schiff, Mr. -Roy J. Stone, Mr. Arthur Gluck, Dr. Morris Goldberg, Mr. Leon J. Goodman, Mr. Joseph C. Good¬ man. Mrs. Dave Levinson, Mr. Samuel D. Luchs, Mrs, Morris Polster, Miss Rose Sugarman, Mr. Edwin J. Schan¬ farber, Mr. Harry Schwartz, Mr. Allan Tarshish, and Rabbi Nathan Zelizer and Kabbi Samuel M. Gup.
The Treatment of Poland's Jewish Minorities
By MAX X KOHLER
Cantor Ansel Freedman To
Officiate Here During
High Holidays
Mr. J. W. Zilberman, president of the .^.gmlath Achim Congregation, an¬ nounced last Wednesday that Cantor Ansel Freethnan has been engaged to officiate in that synagogue at the forth- comhig holidays. Later on in the sea¬ son the cantor will present an extraordi¬ nary concert in which noted artists from the East will participate. Watch future issiues of. the Ciikonicle for further details.
Ezras Noshim Meeting
The regular nieeting of the Ezras Noshim Society will be held on Monday, August 2tiiid, in the vestry rooms of the Agudath Achim Congregation. All mem¬ bers are urged to be present! Important matters will be brought up for considera¬ tion.
[Editor's Note: This paper was read by Max J. Kohler at a Round Table of- the "Jmtilute of Polilics," dl M^illidnts- town, on August 'ii, J933:.]
About a year and'a half ago, when Polish conditions were discussed in New Y'ork City at a meeting of the Conference on Immigration Policy, a well-informed Polish-American editor, a Catholic, stated publicly that the condition of Poland's Jews is not merely lamentable but in his opinion absolutely hopeless. Fortunately, since then a ray or two of hope for the ultimate solution of the problem has emerged, and that, notwithstanding the greatly increased world economic depres¬ sion, the resulting practical cessation of pecuniary aid from American Jews, and the substantial stoppage of emigration to America. Unfortunately, most of the distress of Poland's Jewish minorities, amounting to about a quarter of all the Jeyifs in the world, is due to direct vio¬ lation of specific provisions of the Polish Minorities treaty, which had, on paper, safeguarded practically.all the rights in¬ volved and had anticipated such prospec¬ tive infractions. ,
Poland has about 3 million Jews, about 10% of her entire population, but while 80% of Poland's population reside in the rural district, only about 20% of her Jews do, the rest being city dwellers. In fact, the congestion of Jews in large Polish cities is much greater than these figures indicate, Jews constituting about 34% of Warsaw's entire population, namely about 32i>,000 Jews, Lodz contain¬ ing about 37% Jews, Lemberg 35%, Vilna 43% and Cracow '2410%.
A sharp distinction should be drawn, between the so-called Jewish "assimila¬ tionists," who are Polish speaking in language and everything except religion, and " the overwhelming majority of Poland's Jews, who are Yiddish speak¬ ing, and except in the newly acquired Vilna and Upi>er Silesian sections, were forced by Russia during the four decades preceding the War, westward into Poland, in connection with an attempted "Russification" of Poland, and Vvho arc quite unassimilated and accustomed to considerable self-autonomy over many matters other than their religion. In IWl only about 735,000 Polish Jews reg¬ istered as professing Jews of other than Jewish nationality, chiefly Polish, that we can see that less than 20% of Poland's Jews are really non-Yiddish speaking. For practical purposes, we may disregard these hereafter, except to say 'that one, Ashkenazi, is perhaps PoUand's most distinguished historian tO' day and has represented Poland before the League of Nations, though in Poland too, these non-Yiddish speaking Jews are commonly classed with the large Jewish majority.
Unfortunately for the Polish Jews, their troubles had begun some years,be¬ fore the War, for a sweeping anti-Jew¬ ish boycottj organized by the well-known Polish politician Dniowski, and arising from an election controversy, cut off al- mo.st all Jewish commercial intercourse with Christian Poles and had greatly im¬ poverished Poland's Jews before the fatal year liH4, and this has raged substan¬ tially ever since. In addition, during the War the Jews of Poland in general re¬ membered that Craristic Russia had per¬ secuted them most bitterly and deprived them of almost all the rights of mi^n, and .treated them as a kind of serf, and they
tried' to remain' neutral during the War, as ¦ between' Germans vs Poles, and Poles vs, Russians and Ukrainians, witli the result that air these combatants treiated them as enemies, In war,' the saying is of course, particularly true that "wlio- ever is not with me, is' against me." During the Peace Conference this hos¬ tility led to occasional massacres of Jews even,, the scope of which the Jews nat¬ urally often erroneously exaggerated, calling them "pogroms," and during the Conference President .Wilson appointed the Morgcnthau investigation. Commis¬ sion, which, succeeded in preventing bloodshed. Able account,of its investi¬ gations and Polish Jewish conditions of the time are to be found ih Ambassador Morgenthau's "All in a Lifetime," a book entitled "Poland and Her Minority Races," by Arthur Gooijhart of New Vork, (Secretary of the Commission and now professor of Jurisprudence at Ox¬ ford, and in Luzzati's. "God in Freedom." The persecutions pf the Jews in Poland and Rumania were brought before the Peace Conference and primarily induced the drafting of the minorities.treaties iji general, which Owe their adoption chiefly to Louis Marshall of' New York, aided by Judge Mack and Cyrus Adler and Lucien Wolf of London on the one hand, and President Wilson, Colonel House, David Hunter Miller, Manley 0. Hud¬ son and Lord. Tiobert Cecil on the other. The privately printed Miller "Diary" con¬ tains represcntiitions pro and con , from the niinoritie.'! and their, governments as to the need for and proper scope of the minority treaties. Article II of the Polish Treaty at large in the lower house of her legisla¬ ture was greatly reduced, and further curtailed from time to time, as also their (Continued on Page 2)
Jewish National Fund Council of
Cleveland to Tender Luncheon to
Delegates From Ohio Cities
The Jewish National Fund Council of Cleveland is taking cognizance^ of the Zionist Regional Convention Saturday night and Sunday, September 17 and IH, by tendering a Lunclicoii to delegates and guests. Sunday noon, September 18, at tlie Allerlon Hotel in Cleveland.
The National Fmid Council in Cleve¬ land which has been in existence for the past fifteen years and which has trans¬ mitted to Palestine during,, this |)eriod almost $150,000.00 for the redeeming of Palestine soil from non-Jewish hands, will take this occasion in presenting eleven Golar nothing at all; his ambition is coupled wifli a desire to destroy the Jews of Germany. I hope that the good sense of the great masses of Germany will not permit siich an eventuality, for this would mark the beginning qf that coun- try'.s downfall and its reversion to a state of barbarism totally out of place in the twentieth century.
I have just heard that Cliief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz of the British Empire has arrived in the United States incog¬ nito and has been visiting here with his mother and several other relatives. The distinguished divine has persistently re¬ fused to be interviewed and such requests have been parried with a statement that' he is not here in any official capacity. Neither through the Post OlTice nor by lelcphoiie has it been possible to reach the Chief vRabbi directly.
It is interesting to note that Dr. Hertz, wlio was horn in Czecho-Slovakia, was brought to New York City by his par¬ ents as a child. He received his elemen¬ tary education in the public schools of the grpat metropolis and continued it at the Cohege of the City of New York and Columbia University. His theological . training took place at the Jewish Theo¬ logical Seminary of America. .
Dr.. Hertz's first Rabbinical post was in "Syracuse, N. Y., where he remained until 1898 when he was appointed spir¬ itual leader of a large congregation in Johannesburg; In 1011 Rabbi Hertz was expelled from the Transvaal by President Kruger for .his pro-British sympathies; thereupon he returned to the United States where he became Rabbi of Con¬ gregation Orach Chayim of New York. In 1913 he was.named Chief_ Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of.the British Empire. Dr. Hertz's brother in New York, Emanuel Hertz, is a wfell known bibliophile.
Elected Spiritual Leader of Agudath Achim Cong.
A new antirSemitic publication,. pat¬ terned after the defunct Dearborn Inde¬ pendent of Henry Ford and utilizing the libels of the spurious Elders of Zion, appeared on the newstands of Toronto, Canada, last Monday. A copy of the publication, which has reached the office of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle, reveals that Englaiid is the first target for attack because, of its supposed friendliness to¬ wards Zionist aspirations. The paper charges that the Elders of Zion first be¬ came a power under the late Theodore 'Herzl, Zionist leader, and as such are reported in the minutes of tlie first Zion¬ ist Congress, held in Basle in 1897. This power has now been transferred to the Jewish Agency, the paper charges.
The publication also issues a warning to the Imperial Conference in Ottawa to beware of the Jews and the plans of the Elders of Zion who are watching the proceedings and will form their, future destructive activities accordingly.
Notwithstanding all these charges the paper claims that it Is not anti-Semitic. It asserts that Britain is the Home of the (Continued on page 2)
Women Pioneers' Picnic to Be Held This Sunday
Kabbi Hirschsprung
Rabbi Mordechai Hirschsprung of Canton, Ohio, was elected as spiritual leader of the Agudath Achim (Tbngrega- tion at a meeting held Wednesday eve¬ ning. He succee